Just one month after suffering a major stroke, 80-year-old Aki Nakamura is beginning to recover basic movements in the comfort of her Kyoto home. She wears a custom-built smart exoskeleton – a device that looks like sturdy body armour – steered by Amazon’s Alexa. It supports her spine and subtly assists her movements while her […]
2018 was one of the worst years on record for forced displacement. From Myanmar, to Syria and Sudan, millions became refugees after they were displaced due to variety of reasons including civil conflict, government crackdowns and climate change. Around the world, 70.8 million people were forcibly displaced in 2018; which meant on average, every two […]
On a reclaimed tract of land southeast of Macao’s Cotai Strip, the remains of the former Ka Ho Refugee Camp are slowly being erased, lost to time’s inevitable march. The camp’s defunct administrative building in Coloane still stands, but the space now hosts the Centro de Formação Juvenil Dom Bosco youth education centre. Meanwhile, in […]
Growing up in Macao, award-winning film director Tracy Choi suppressed her sexuality for much of her childhood and teenage years. It wasn’t until she moved to Taiwan in 2006, where she attended the University of Shih Hsin in Taipei, that she felt free to embrace her identity as a lesbian. She dove into the LGBT […]
From the Greek ou (not) and topos (place), utopia literally means ‘non-place’. Through this lens, Hong Kong is a utopia, a ‘non-place’ for asylum seekers. Home, too, is remote, indefinite – a utopia that might never be seen again. I am an invisible man. I am here, yet I am unseen. My days are spent […]
Uruguay becomes first country to legalise euthanasia Switzerland begins allowing assisted suicide Britain passes the Suicide Act, punishing anyone who helps another person commit suicide with up to 14 years in prison Eight states in the US pass ‘Right to Die’ bills The World Federation of Right to Die Societies forms Colombia legalises euthanasia, however […]
It was just after dinner time in Chamonix, France, when Vivi Cheung took off from the starting line at the 2018 Ultra Trail de Mont Blanc (UTMB), an annual 171-kilometre ultra-marathon race through the Alps. By midnight, the Macao resident had been running through heavy rain and plummeting temperatures for hours. She felt exhausted, confused […]
Hong Kong ranked the fifth ‘most stressed’ population in the 2018 Cigna 360 Well-Being Survey (which covered 23 countries and territories) and, according to the Hospital Authority, the number of residents seeking treatment for mental problems rose 30 per cent, from 20,000 in 2011 to around 30,000 in 2016. That’s why Mind Hong Kong believes […]
We asked Rainlily, the city’s first crisis centre for survivors of sexual violence, to help us unpack commonly used terms and how they’re applied in Hong Kong. Consent When a person agrees to sexual activity without coercion. Communicated either verbally or through body language, consent can […]
The city’s shelters and rescue groups are struggling to care for the growing numbers of homeless cats and dogs, which have been surrendered or abandoned by their owners. Sam Edwards wasn’t planning on fostering a 10-year-old dog named Wallace. But as Covid-19 continued to spread across Hong Kong, he wanted to find a way to […]